Guillaume took his first dive 15 years ago in the cold waters of Northern France. Before becoming a dive professional, he was working as a management consultant in Paris. Once he realised that he was spending more time staring at his tropical fish screensaver than preparing Powerpoint presentations, he decided to pack his diving gear and a pair of boardshorts and headed to Thailand.
For over 5 years, he worked as an Instructor on Koh Tao and trained many students from Open Water Diver to Divemaster. As a PADI Course Director, Guillaume has been running the IDCs at Ban’s Diving Resort for the last two years. He also represents us in Save Koh Tao, our local environmental association.
As a true global citizen Natalie has worked in the dive industry since 1997, in Thailand, the Caribbean, Egypt, Australia and Canada. Natalie has managed 5 Star Instructor Development Centre Sunshine Dive Resort (also owned by Bans Diving) since 2006, which offers personalized diver training to smaller groups. Individually, Natalie has had the honour to have certified several thousands of divers but she was most excited when recently the dive centre received was awarded for highest growth in certifications in Asia Pacific. Although the number of people introduced to the underwater world through Sunshine Divers has grown, Natalie’s focus has remained – quality individualized instruction.
Representing the Instructor Koh Tao team and the islands only female Course Director, Natalie is excited to share her unique experience in the industry as well as her enthusiasm, patience, and knowledge.
2003 was the year that Marcel’s life changed forever; it only took 20 minutes on his first Open Water dive to realize that you can have a career in this amazing underwater realm. Every day became a better day from the moment he became a dive professional. He actively pursuit his career to PADI Course Director and is now working full-time teaching the Instructor Development Courses at Ban’s Diving Resort. Marcel is also very actively involved in supporting Project AWARE in many projects to preserve the delicate aquatic world that we call our office.
Next IDC starts on June 11. To sign up or find more about how to become a PADI instructor, send us a message to contact@instructor-kohtao.com.
Week 2 of the May IDC kicked off today with academic presentations. Next confined session tomorrow.
Great first confined water presentations this morning in the hot sun. Lots of sun burns and a few 5.0s!!
Awesome day with our MSDT candidates: two deep dives at Sail Rock and a whale shark at Shark Island!
MSDT Deep Diver and Wreck Diver theory today. Deep dives tomorrow... at Sail Rock!!!
Are you interested to see what you are doing from day one to the last day of the IDC?
PADI Certificate of Excellence - Guillaume
PADI Certificate of Excellence - Marcel
INSTRUCTOR KOH TAO DATES 2012
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Jack Wylie, UK
Divemaster, IDC, MSDT and Internship
"Bans is a great place to learn. The people, the atmosphere and the Koh Tao lifestyle just keep you going!"
